Compositional controls on the partitioning of U, Th, Ba, Pb, SR and Zr between clinopyroxene and haplobasaltic melts: Implications for uranium series disequilibria in basalts

Details Compositional controls on the partitioning of U, Th, Ba, Pb, SR and Zr between clinopyroxene and haplobasaltic melts: Implications for uranium series disequilibria in basalts Compositional controls on the partitioning of U, Th, Ba, Pb, SR and Zr between clinopyroxene and haplobasaltic melts: Implications for uranium series disequilibria in basalts

Dec 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994e%26psl.128..407l&link_type=abstract

Earth and Planetary Science Letters (ISSN 0012-821X), vol. 128, no. 3-4, p. 407-423

Computer Science

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Basalt, Electron Probes, Mass Spectroscopy, Melts (Crystal Growth), Uranium, Chemical Composition, Thermopiles

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The partitioning of U, Th, Pb, Sr, Zr and Ba between coexisting chromian diopsides and haplobasaltic liquids at oxygen fugacities between the iron-wustite buffer and air at 1285 C has been characterized using secondary ion mass spectrometry. The partition coefficients for Th, U and Zr show a strong dependence on the Al and Na content of the clinopyroxene. A good correlation between Al-IV and DTh exists for all recent Th partitioning studies, providing a simple explanation for the two order of magnitude variation in DTh observed in this and previous studies. Because mantle clinopyroxenes generally have greater than 5 wt% Al2O3, we suggest that the relevant partition coefficients for U and Th are between 0.01 and 0.02. While variations in Al and Na in clinopyroxene affect the absolute value of the Th and U partition coefficients, they have no effect on their ratio, DTh/DU. Our results reinforce the inference that equilibrium partioning of U and Th between clinopyroxene and melt cannot explain the observed Th-230 excesses in basalts. Indeed, under the oxygen fugacities relevant to mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORB) petrogenesis, clinopyroxene has little ability to fractionate U from Th (DTh/D(sub U less than 2), implying that chemical disequilibrium between melt and wall rock during transport is not required to preserve Th-230 excess generated in the garnet stability field. If the Ba partition coefficient serves as an analog for Ra and the partition coefficient of U(5+) serves as an analog for Pa(5+), then Ra-226 and Pa-231 excesses can be generated by clinopyroxene-melt partitioning. Using compositionally dependent partition coefficients, a melting model is used to show that equilibrium porous flow can explain variation in uranium series activities from the East Pacific Rise by varying the depth of melting.

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